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    <h1>Overview</h1>
    <p>Giza is an open, lightweight scientific plotting library built on top of 
    <a href="http://www.cairographics.org">cairo</a> that provides 
    uniform output to multiple devices.<br> Giza is currently distributed under 
    the <a href="https://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-3.0.html">
    LGPL license</a>. It is written in standard ANSI C and has bindings for Fortran 90/95/2003.<br>
    Devices currently supported by giza are: the X Window system, PDF, 
    PostScript, eps, png and svg.</p>
    
    <p>Giza also provides a drop-in, modern replacement for the PGPLOT graphics library (libpgplot and libcpgplot). 
    Current status of the PGPLOT interface <a href="documentation/pgplot.html">here</a>.</p>
    
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    Written by James Wetter and Daniel Price, initially as a backend for the
    <a href="http://users.monash.edu.au/~dprice/splash">splash</a> visualisation tool.
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